Top 77 Metallica Quotes

Oh, I’m going to raise him on Black Sabbath and Metallica and football and MMA and all things that should matter for a young boy, and discipline and strength and honor and courage and everything that I would hope to instill within my son.

I dated someone in the ’90s who was really into Metallica, and I remember thinking at the time, ‘That just sounds so heavy and hard.’ But they have great ballads! Great ballads.

We’ve toured with so many bands, and we’ve noticed that there are a few of them… Metallica, Rammstein, Tool – those aren’t bands, those are events.

When this genre of music started in America, Metallica was up north in California, we were in Southern California, Anthrax was on the East Coast. We each developed our own metal music, and after 30 years, we’re still playing our metal music.

As big as Metallica are, they’re still not like a pop act. As big as they are, they’re still not U2 or Lady Gaga. It’s still underground.

When I get 13 or 14 years old, I get crazy with rock music, like, like, deeply crazy. And one of my favorite bands at that moment was, for example, like – bands like Metallica or Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd and Santana, you know? And then I start to play metal, actually, when I was – at the age of 15.

Metallica is a big, huge influence and inspiration. That’s who Babymetal aspires to become some day.

When I came into Metallica, I had to do justice to Cliff’s work, but I also had to put my own signature on it. No one could be Cliff Burton; Cliff Burton was the Jimi Hendrix of bass.

I would like to teach Metallica our dance moves, just because we’ve learned so much from them about metal.

Metallica – they’re so demonic, they’re crazy, I don’t know how they do it.

I think every Metallica album is unique in its own way.

Metallica is a wonderful key to have on my key ring. I can go anywhere – it’s great.

You just go out and do the best that you can. I think people feel that, and they embrace it, and it’s a part of what makes Metallica special.

I know the guys in Metallica. I’m very honored that they were influenced by Deep Purple when they started, and they’ve always been very kind to us.

I’ve been a fan of Metallica and friends with those guys for a long time and that was just great – half Alice In Chains and half Metallica playing together.

I actually grew up on rock music; that’s what was played around my house. I listened to Led Zepplin, AC/DC, Metallica, Ozzy Osbourne, Nirvana, Aerosmith – really almost everything.

Who were the biggest acts in the world in 1987? Guns N’ Roses and Metallica. I shamelessly pandered to surfers and skateboarders, and in pictures from then, you’ll see Slash and those guys wearing N.W.A stuff. If they thought it was cool, people in Kansas and Wyoming would buy it. That’s how we broached the subject.

Without Metallica, I wouldn’t be doing what I am doing. I have every Metallica record, of course, and I would spend hours on drums in my parents’ basement with the stereo behind me, cranking those records and learning Lars’ drum beats, beat by beat.

I feel that music is such an inspirational form of energy, as baseball is. And especially with Metallica, believe it or not, our shows are very physical. Sports is a very physical thing, too.

With my experience with Metallica, I’ve already surfed Portugal, Morocco, and all over Australia with Kirk.

You listen to a Metallica song, and you listen to the drums, and they’re not necessarily swinging, but the arrangements are different. Why is that? Because it’s more in tune with jazz arrangements. It’s very different. It’s not a traditional rock and roll production, in terms of the drums.

During our formative years, it was all about, ‘What did Metallica do?’ and ‘How do we do that?’ and then you try and find an identity of your own, but they’re still… They were the pioneers and the trailblazers.

I have a very vague surface level awareness of Metallica.

I listen to either romantic classical music, Brahms or Beethoven or something like Mozart, or I go all the way contemporary and listen to Metallica or Adele, Radiohead, jazz, whatever it is that is completely opposite.

It’s very important to us, family, and the balance of family within the band is probably the most important. Metallica is important, but when you have your wife and your kids, and you need to maintain that and keep the peace, it’s important to work around the schedule of the kids’ schools.

I didn’t realize Metallica was as big as they were. I just thought it was my buddy Kirk’s band – we went to high school together. I wasn’t really following metal.

Before we joined BABYMETAL, we weren’t that familiar with metal, but we learned a lot from Metallica. Watching their shows and even meeting them, they were really nice to us.

There’s a band called Pantera that I listen to, and then Metallica’s ‘And Justice for All.’ If you listen to a little bit of that before you go on stage, you’re pretty much set for the whole show.

We’ve never been shy to admit that Metallica is a huge influence in our lives and on our music.

Megadeth doesn’t sound anything like Metallica.

When I think of bands that have maintained a certain level of success all along – Metallica, or the Red Hot Chili Peppers – no matter what anybody thinks about them, you have to look at them and say, ‘Wow, those guys operated under the most pressure.’

I like the original Metallica version they did on ‘Garage Days’ – ‘Last Caress’ and ‘Green Hell.’

Growing up, I was listening to a lot of Metallica, a lot of instrumental guitar music because I started out as a guitar player.

I went from being a kid-kid, listen to everything from The Beatles through Kiss, Peter Frampton, Jethro Tull classic rock, classic stuff into immediately, it seemed like, Iron Maiden and stuff like that. The first Iron Maiden record and then, obviously, the first Metallica record.

Around Christmas time, I passed by a Hot Topic at the mall. They had the Christmas decorations up in the front of the store with AC/DC and Metallica, Harry Potter, Star Wars and Bullet Club. So, we are certainly a part of pop culture.

Metallica’s ‘black’ album, when I heard that and I heard Lars’ playing, and I just was, like, you know, ‘Wow! Something really neat’s been accomplished here.’

I listen to a lot of Pink Floyd, the Doors, Elton John, Sabbath, Metallica, GN’R, Megadeth – just classic rock, classic metal stuff.

Nobody wants to hear Metallica at lunchtime.

I do love the term ‘rocker.’ The word itself imbues a ton of imagery and romance. But I don’t think a rocker needs to have AC/DC and Metallica and the Black Keys rumbling through their car speakers speeding headlong into the night.

One thing about being in Metallica is I’ve always felt challenged.

I love heavy metal, Metallica. I’m into Jefferson Starship and acid rock.

Music has influenced everything from my tattooing to how I talk to how I walk, I guess. I was classically trained in piano since I was 6. Then in my teens, my older sister introduced me to Metallica. It was all over. I had a mohawk soon after that.

In a lot of ways, Metallica is like a fusion band. It’s not necessarily jazz or any of that, but the music is grooving.

What’s the message in Metallica? There is no message, but if there was a message, it really should be look within yourself, don’t listen to me, don’t listen to James, don’t listen to anybody, look within yourself for the answers.

I am a music freak. My tastes run the gamut from Willie Nelson to Metallica to Miles Davis.

Bands like Metallica never sat around and said, ‘We’re speed metal,’ or ‘We’re thrash metal.’ If it feels good at the end of the day, to me, that’s metal.

If we were to hit the level that Metallica or somebody like that hit, we’d have had a hard time dealing with it. I think it would have been our doom. It’s hard for anybody at that level.

There is something powerful in Metallica, a will, a drive.

I saw Metallica, I’m not a major Metallica fan, but I like music enough to get invited and went.

Even when metal was on the radio, it was always the watered down stuff. There were only a couple real metal bands – Metallica is one – that broke through.

That is one thing about playing with Guns N’ Roses and Metallica: everyone wants to interview you.

My kids listen to everything because I listen to everything, so it’s not far-fetched to hear them playing Metallica and then playing A Tribe Called Quest or N.W.A.

When I was a very young kid, the first music that really turned me on was a new wave of British heavy metal – big, dumb rock music. There was a band called Diamond Head – they were basically the band that inspired Metallica. But I also liked bands like Saxon and Iron Maiden.

On ‘Metallica,’ I recorded six or seven different guitar solos for almost every song, took the best aspects of each solo, mapped out a master solo and made a composite. Then I learned how to play the composite solo, tightened it up and replayed it for the final version.

Most bands play one style of song. If you listen to Metallica it all sounds exactly like Metallica, and if you listen to Black Sabbath it all sounds like Black Sabbath. I like AC/DC a lot but you can pick those sounds out on the radio in a heartbeat because they all have certain things in common.